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Already this year, you've heard a lot from us about the U.S. farm bill â the legislation that governs U.S. agricultural and food policy â and the need for reforms that will strengthen rural communities and fight hunger at home and abroad. The House Agriculture Committee is giving final...

Stephen Meyer grew up in Davis, California, where one of his first jobs was working for a neighbor pulling weeds. The neighbor was the breeder of the Ace tomato, the first variety harvestable by machine, the kind seen heaped in eighteen wheelers traversing California Valleys every late summer...

As Congress begins the work of reauthorizing the U.S. farm bill, more than a dozen Churches and faith-based organizations, including the Episcopal Church, have come together as the Religious Working Group on the Farm Bill to urge major changes in U.S. agricultural policy aimed at reducing...

As Congress begins the work of reauthorizing the U.S. farm bill, more than a dozen Churches and faith-based organizations, including the Episcopal Church, have come together as the Religious Working Group on the Farm Bill to urge major changes in U.S. agricultural policy aimed at reducing...

In keeping with Earth Day April 22, Martha Gardner, consultant for environmental ministries in the Episcopal Church's Office of Peace and Justice Ministries, speaks about how the Episcopal Church and some of its congregations are committed to preserving the environment through green and power-...

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain,...

May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness.
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor. âPsalm 72

If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday... You shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in. â Isaiah 58